SugarCRM In-Depth: E-mail Folders

The e-mail functionality in SugarCRM is one of the more intricate areas of the application.  It utilizes multiple tables for a variety of tasks, including storing and organizing messages.

Lets take a closer look at how the latter part works in this in-depth analysis of the e-mail folders system of SugarCRM's e-mail client.

To begin, lets take a look at what the default e-mail folder configuration looks like:

Notice that the following three folders automatically appear:

• My Email
• My Drafts
• My Sent Email

These are system folders and are used to house downloaded incoming e-mail, drafts and already sent messages respectively.  They should never be deleted as doing so may result in a loss of data.


Ironically, there are occasions on which the folders will disappear through no action of the user, thus making it difficult to access the e-mail messages they contain.


Troubleshooting this problem helps one obtain a good understanding of the underlying architecture of the e-mail folders system, so lets dive in and take a look.